Machine for introducing pegs and cement into soles



UNiTnD STATES PATENT Marica.

ELMER TOWNSEND, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 114,029, dated August30, 1864.

To all whom t 11i/tty concern.-

Be it known that I, ELMnRTowNsnND, of Boston, in the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Machine forIntroducing Pegs and Cementinto Soles or Various other Articles; and Ido hereby declare the same to be fully described in the followingspecilication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Which-Figure l is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a iide elevation, of suchmachine, or those parts of a pegging-machine which, in accordance withmy invention, have a cementing apparatus combined with them. Fig. 3 is asection of the lower part of the cement-conduit and the chamber orchannel from which the peg is expelled by the peg-driver. Figs. 4, 5, 6,and 7 are illustra-tions of other kinds of cementing apparatus which maybe employed in carrying out my invention.

.Ihe nature of my said invention may be said to consist in a combinationcomposed of a pegging-machine and a mechanism or apparatus either forintroducing cementinto the awl-holes for the reception of the pegs, orfor applying cemen; to the pegs preparatory to their being driven, orfor applying a cementsoftening liquid to pegs previously coated in wholeor in part with cement, and prior to such pegs being driven, the objectot' the machine being to drive pegs and cement them in and to theirholes, in order that they may not only be held therein by friction, butby the cement when set or indurated; and my in- 'vention embraces peggin g machinery, wheth er operated either entirely automatically or bymanual power, in whole or in part.

In the drawings, Figs. l, 2, and 3 represent not only the peg-wood orpeg-ieeding mechanism and the awl for making the peg-reception holes,but the peg-driver ot an ordinary pegging-machine, the mechanism forautomaticall y operating these members of the pegging-machine,notbeingexhibitethitbeing well understood or known. Each of the saidmembers may, however, being operated by manual power applied to them inthe proper order for driving a peg.

The awl a and the peg-driver b are exhib ited as projecting from aslider, c, they operating or being arranged in separate channels made inthe foot or lower part ofthe feedinghead A. The feed-wheel is shown atj' as suitably applied i'or operating or feeding forward a strip ofpeg-wood or a range or row ot' pegs, g, which are to be successively fedinto .he pegdriver channel d, and are to be successively driven out oi'the same and into a sole or other article while the machine may be inuse for such purpose. y

In case astrip of wood is used in the carrier, a knife is to be employedto separate the peg from such strip, either preparatory to or while suchpeg may be in .the act of being forced downward by the peg-driver.

The awl or apparatus for puncturiugthe sole or article to receive thepeg may be used in connection with my invention, but it is notabsolutely essential to that element by which the peg is driven into thehole, as such h ole may be made in the leather by an awl or apparatuspreparatory to the use of my invention, such awl or apparatus beingseparate from the pegging-machine. I prefer, however, in carrying out myinvention in its most practical form, to combine with it a mechanism orapparatus for puncturing in the sole or article the holes to receivethepegs, such additions constituting with the pegging mechanism and thecementing apparatus an extended combination, which I also herein includein my invention; and I do not confine my invention to the use oi pegs ofwood, as pegs of any other well-known material or combination ot'materials may be used with itin lieu ot' the ordinary wooden pegs; and,furthermore, I would remark, that instead of cement being employed inthe cementing apparatus I have contemplated the use therein oi' aliquidsuch as water, whether in a liquid state or in a state of steam, itbeing understood that under such circumstances the pegs are to have glueor cement applied tc them previous to the appli cation ofthe water orliquid to the peg or in the peghole, the water, steam, orsofteningliquid under such circumstances being applied for the purposeof softenin g or rendering sticky the cement or glue on the peg or inthe hole for its reception.

The second portion of my invention-viz., the cementingapparatus-consists, as shown in the drawings, ot' a small cistern orreservoir, h, and a conduit, t', the latter being led out ot' thereservoir and into the channel (l, through which the pcg is driven bythe driver b. This cementing apparatus is affixed to the head A, and bythe action of gravity it discharges its cementing-liquid into thechannel d, and below the peg. Each peg, while being driven, forces withit into the peg hole a portion of the liquid cement.

In Figs. 4 and 5 Ihave represented a cementreservoir, h, as so appliedto the side ofthe peg-carrier 7c as to cause the pegs to pass throughsuch reservoir in their passage to the pcgdriv`er channel d. Soin Figs.6 and 7 the pegs are shown in their passage through a reservoir, h, andas being forced into and out of the same by means of curved guides, thereservoir being arranged underneath the pegpassage of the pegcarrier. Alamp, o, or a means ofheatingorrenderingliquid the cement of thereservoir h, is also shown in Fig. 7.

Figs. 4 and 6 are transverse sections taken through the mechanism shownin Figs. 5 and 7.

In using the machine represented in Figs. l and 2, the feeder f is to berevolved so as to fr rce the strip ot'peg-Wood or the series of pegs, asthe case may be, forward and cause them to be introduced successivelyinto the channel d. On the entrance ofeach peg into the said channel thepeg-driver b is to be forced downward so as to expel the peg from thechannel and drive it into the aWl-hole intended for its reception, asole or other article being supposed to be underneath the passage d. Thereser- Voir h is to be charged with the cementingliquid or with thesoftening-liquid, as the case may be, which is to be conducted into thechannel d by means of the pipe 1'. During the descent of the pcg-driverboth the peg and some of the liquid will be expelled from the channel d,and will be driven into the aWl-hole or into the material to be pegged.

I do not claim either a pegging-machine or a cementing machine orapparatus, when separately considered 5 but Iclaim as my inventiony Acombination composed of a. pegging-machine (whether with or Without ana-wl for making holes in an article to be pegged) and a mechanism orapparatus either for introducing cement into the awl hole or holes forthe reception of the peg or pegs or for applying cement to the pegspreparatory to their being driven, or for applying a cement-softeningliquid to pegs previously covered, either in whole or in part, withcement an d prior to such pegs being driven, the object or purpose ofsuch combination being as hereinbefore set forth.

Witnesses F. P. HALE, Jr., lt. H. EDDY.

